By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Federal authorities on Wednesday announced charges against 10 Mexican members of the Barrio Azteca gang — which operates along the U.S.-Mexico border — in connection with the March 2010 slayings of a U.S. Consulate employee In Juarez, Mexico, her husband and the husband of another consulate employee. The members were indicted…
By Allan Lengel For AOL News In an unexpected move, the highly entertaining and often unpredictable former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich has asked a federal judge to cancel his retrial and sentence him on the sole conviction in his first trial: lying to an FBI agent. Blagojevich insisted that he is still innocent but said…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — A former federal prosecutor is fighting a battle to keep his law license. USA Today reports that the District’s Bar Counsel on Tuesday asked the D.C. Court of Appeals during a hearing to disbar former D.C. assistant U.S. Attorney G. Paul Howes for “illegal and unethical conduct” in some…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A man accused of plotting to bomb the N.Y. subway considered himself a prisoner of war after he was arrested in New York last year, an FBI agent testified in court, according to Newsday. FBI agent Farbad Azad testified in federal court that he interviewed bombing suspect Adis Medunjanin at a…
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By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Under the category of very sad stories, a 21-year-old Chicago man was sentenced Tuesday to 24 months of probation after pleading guilty to being under the influence of alcohol when he hit an off-duty FBI agent’s car head-on last last September in the Chicago suburb of River Grove, the Chicago Tribune…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A deputy marshal who was critically injured Tuesday morning while trying to arrest a man in St. Louis, died from his wounds Tuesday night around 7 p.m., the St. Louis Post Dispatch reported. The paper identified the slain deputy U.S. Marshal as John Perry, 48, who had been with the agency…
